If I were sitting down with you for a cup of coffee, this is what I'd tell you about East Agile, what we can do, and what it is like working with us. It is thirteen minutes long, but I think you will find it very enlightening and really help you get to know us.

Cheers,

-Lawrence Sinclair, CEO 

East Agile Intro Video <-- FULL 13 MINUTE VIDEO

(Download includes introduction, as well as discussions of our approach to analytics and software development)

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Learn about our approach to big data analytics:

Can you tell if a site was implemented using Ruby on Rails? It is not always obvious. But there are clues that you can use. One of the East Agile developers shares the following advise on this topic.

Based on my experience about rails and web technologies, I have some rules to identify the technology behind a website:
- recognize by URL pattern
- view HTML source
- HTTP monitor by Firebug
- recognize it's not rails-based by understanding other platforms

Basically, I give you 2 simple approaches. To take advantage of these, you may need an understanding of some web technologies and you may need to install more tools. 

1. URL pattern:
   - rails-based website usually does not have those file extensions in URL: php, asp, aspx, do, jsp, ...
   - Rails supports RESTful URL build-in. So URL in rails usually in patterns:
      //new         --> new item page
      //        --> detail page of an item
      ///edit   --> edit an item with id
      /             --> list all items
      ///collection>
     ...
      may be *products*, *users*, *projects*
     Ex:
        /projects/1234/stories    --> all stories in project with id 1234
      /products/new             --> new production page
      ...
2. HTML code: 
    - open a page that has a form (eg: new products page, guestbook page, user registration page ...)
    - view HTML source: (menu View->Page Source in Firefox)
    - find HTML tag

Hal Varian was quoted recently talking about Micro-multinationals as a fairly recent business innovation he has noticed in Silicon Valley in particular - small businesses made up of people spread throughout the world with some key players in the Bay Area. We understand that mode of business well. And working with an East Agile development team is a great way to augment and enable that mode of operation. 

See http://news.cnet.com/8301-30684_3-10309375-265.html

Socialscore is a dashboard for Facebook users' social networks. The concept is to present meaningful metrics, information, and search capabilities to enable Facebook users to understand their social networks and social influence. The idea (IMHO) was rather cool, but we ended up with under a hundred users and the site was never very successful from a business perspective. However, it does remain a good demonstration of some of our programming capabilities.

I present Socialscore in the following video: